Forgive Me Father 2

About Forgive Me Father 2

Forgive Me Father 2 is a first-person shooter from the studio Byte Barrel, published by Fulqrum Publishing. It entered Early Access on PC in October 2023 and came out in full on 24 October 2024 on Steam, GOG and the Epic Games Store. The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions followed on 23 September 2025, and the Switch version on 22 January 2026. It is the sequel to Forgive Me Father and continues the story of the Priest from the first game.

You travel into a hostile world drawn from H.P. Lovecraft's myths, searching for a way back to sanity. The levels move from foggy night streets and gothic churches to glowing alien growths, a snowy mountain base and a rain-soaked cultist camp, and every frame is drawn to look like a page of a dark comic book, with heavy ink lines and bright, sickly colour.

It plays as a fast, old-school shooter. You fight crowds of possessed townsfolk, deranged cultists, gas-masked soldiers and ancient things with shotguns, rifles and explosive launchers, each with stronger versions to unlock. Enemies evolve into more twisted forms as you go. Madness builds as you fight and feeds abilities you can unleash on what is attacking you, and the soundtrack is driven by electric guitars and drums. Against the first game, the store page points to improved sprites, models and lighting, and to the madness skills.

A run through the main story takes about 6.5 hours by HowLongToBeat's count, shown on its GOG page. Critics were broadly positive, with a Top Critic Average of 79 on OpenCritic; reviews there praise the shooting and the art, while some find the story thin, the level design plain and the campaign short, and some report weaker performance on consoles. The PlayStation version lists adjustable difficulty and subtitles.

This is horror you fight head-on rather than run from: the dread is in the grotesque designs, the gore and the cult imagery, not in hiding. It suits players who liked DUSK, CULTIC or the first Forgive Me Father and want a darker, Lovecraftian take on the genre.

How to play Forgive Me Father 2

1. Move through each level and shoot what comes at you.
2. Pick up ammunition and health, and switch weapons to suit the enemies in front of you.
3. Unlock new weapons and their stronger variants as you progress.
4. Let madness build in fights, then spend it on the special abilities it powers.
5. Find the way forward through each level to its end and the next part of the Priest's journey.

Tips

• Keep moving; standing still in a crowd of cultists is how you die.
• Save the explosive launchers for groups and the rifles for enemies at range.
• Use your madness abilities when you are swarmed rather than holding on to them.

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